[Delingpole] Now the reason I quote Dr Willis's letter because it contains so many of the tropes and rhetorical fallacies to which the climate alarmist movement is prey, all of them wrapped up in a blanket of warm caringness and noble altruism. To whit:

1. The copious cloying references to his grandson. Climate true believers think they have a monopoly on compassion. They think they are the only people who love their children and grandchildren or even stop to consider the plight of "future generations". This gives them the moral authority to write surreptitiously malevolent, passive-aggressive emails to people they've never met and whose opinions they've never troubled to understand, accusing them of being "celebrity denialists."